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$50M Ontario lottery winners face scrutinyNews Story
An Ontario, Canada, couple who won a $50 million Lotto Max jackpot last week said they expected to have trouble collecting their winnings. Jo Ann and Gaetan Champagne have received a barrage of questions from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission: Did you buy the Lotto Max ticket? How did you come up with the numbers? Where did you get the ticket from? The Champagnes said they aren't fazed. We know the rules, said Jo Ann. I remember leaving the convenience store and we both looked
Jan 6, 2012, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery tries to recover $12.5M insider winNews Story
Chung family created 'spider web' of properties, bank accounts More than seven years after a Toronto-area woman cashed in a stolen $12.5 million Lotto Super 7 ticket, Ontario's lottery corporation is trying to recoup the money, but the lengthy wait may have cost the Crown agency. CBC News has learned that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) filed a lawsuit in March against the woman who claimed the ticket, Kathleen Chung, and her family and associated companies for deliberatel
Nov 15, 2011, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Toronto teacher claims $21.4M lottery jackpotNews Story
Winning Lotto Max ticket was sitting on his fridge for months Includes video report A Toronto-area high school wood shop and technology teacher played hooky Tuesday to pick up his $21.4 million Lotto Max jackpot. I called in sick today surprise! I'm not sick, said Craig Henshaw, 42, smiling as cameras recorded his check presentation at the offices of Ontario Lottery and Gaming. All kidding aside, Henshaw says he loves teaching so much he's just going to take a temporary break while
Sep 29, 2011, 8:24 am - Lottery News

Workers win the lottery one day after being laid offNews Story
Group of manufacturing employees will split $7 million prize Includes video report In Canada, a group of employees at an Ottawa manufacturing plant say they won the $7 million Lotto 6/49 prize Wednesday, the same day their company announced massive layoffs. Eighteen employees at SMART technologies including 10 who got layoff notices on Wednesday were part of the group of winners, according to Colin Willard, one of the ticket holders. Willard, who worked at SMART for seven years, was
Aug 16, 2011, 10:10 pm - Lottery News

Sibling battle over $32M lottery win lands in courtNews Story
Take a barber, a handyman and the handyman's sister, add one lottery ticket and $32 million, and what do you have? A lawsuit and siblings no longer speaking to each other. Sam Haddad and his longtime friend and barber Mike Dettorre won $32 million with a Lotto 6/49 ticket in June 2008. It made for a great story: Dettorre had been cutting Haddad's hair for more than 30 years and the men often bought tickets together, sticking them on the mirror in Dettorre's Old Ottawa South barber shop until
May 3, 2011, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

Statistician cracks secret code behind lottery ticketsNews Story
Is the apparent randomness of the scratch ticket just a facade, a mathematical lie? The call came around 3 a.m. Toronto time, which was midnight in Nevada where Doug Hartzell was sleeping. It was his old friend, Mohan Srivastava, phoning from Canada. He called me and said, 'Man, I think I'm losing it. But I see a pattern in scratch lottery tickets,' said Hartzell, recalling that 2003 conversation. My reaction almost instantly was like: I'm sure he's right. Over their three decades
Feb 2, 2011, 1:40 pm - Lottery News

Lottery scam victims finally get $12.5M jackpotNews Story
They had to wait seven years, but seven Ontario men each collected checks for more than $2 million Thursday, their share of a lottery win originally awarded to a woman now facing fraud charges. The men, all friends and former co-workers who lay cable for a living, will each receive $2.1 million their share of the original $12.5 million jackpot plus $2.3 million in interest for a total of $14.8 million split seven ways. The men bought the ticket jointly while working together at a construct
Jan 28, 2011, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Canadian family charged with stealing $12.5M lottery jackpotNews Story
Search is on for rightful owner of winning ticket Are you the victim of an alleged $12.5-million lottery jackpot theft? Ontario police say someone else celebrated with what should have been your happy dance. The rightful owner of the Super 7 ticket was defrauded of the winnings nearly seven years ago, police say. Meanwhile, investigators allege the family accused of stealing the winnings lived in the lap of luxury multiple homes and BMW and Mercedes vehicles were among their big-ticket
Sep 30, 2010, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Ottawa man claims $25M Lotto Max prizeNews Story
An Ottawa construction worker is $25 million richer after claiming his Lotto Max prize almost two weeks after the winning numbers were drawn. Gerald Clement, 50, said he spent the last two weeks preparing himself for what his life will be like with $25 million. I'm so lucky to have a close-knit network of family and friends that I could turn to in this situation. It took me a long time to process this, and I checked my ticket at the self-scanner about five times, said Clement, who is sing
Aug 26, 2010, 12:12 pm - Lottery News

Online gambling coming to OntarioNews Story
In a bid to keep millions spent on offshore gambling websites in the province, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. says Ontarians will have access to legal online gambling by 2012. Across Canada and around the world, online commerce is part of our everyday lives and OLG is excited to start the consultation process for online gaming and growing its marketplace in the future, OLG chairman Paul Godfrey said Tuesday. Thousands of Ontario residents spend nearly $400 million a year through unr
Aug 11, 2010, 9:34 am - Lottery News